Am I affected by MCP Atlassian: Insecure File Permissions on OAuth Token Storage? What should I do?
The tool wrote its OAuth token file with default file permissions, which are usually world-readable on Linux.
Affected: mcp-atlassian < 0.22.0. Fixed in: 0.22.0. What should you check, and what should you do about it?
Full incident page with sources: https://agentarmorhq.com/incidents/2026/09/cve-2026-77268-mcp-atlassian (opens external site)
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Am I affected? Affected: mcp-atlassian < 0.22.0. Fixed in: 0.22.0.
- Check your version: run
pip show mcp-atlassian. Versions < 0.22.0 of mcp-atlassian are affected.
What to do now
- Upgrade to the fixed version: run
pip install --upgrade "mcp-atlassian>=0.22.0"(first patched version 0.22.0). - Set the ~/.mcp-atlassian folder to owner-only permissions (0o700).
- Set the oauth-<client_id>.json token file to owner-only read and write (0o600).
General practice, not from the source: if the affected software could read tokens or credentials, rotate them after upgrading; pin versions and review changes before updating tools your agents run.
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4596-2p6p-28cv (opens external site)
Full incident page: https://agentarmorhq.com/incidents/2026/09/cve-2026-77268-mcp-atlassian (opens external site)
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